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MORE cracks have appeared in the Collingwood camp, with Dale Thomas today criticising some of his teammates for recent "outlandish" statements.

Thomas was speaking after this week's newspaper column by ruckman Darren Jolly in which he criticised former teammate Josh Fraser, and two weeks after Scott Pendlebury accused teammates of “cheating” in the wake of the Pies’ Anzac Day defeat to Essendon.

Speaking to Nova 100’s Hughesy and Kate this morning, Thomas questioned whether newspapers were the best place to air grievances and suggested some of his teammates should “pull their heads in”.

Jolly wrote earlier this week that he was shocked when Fraser had a “very acrimonious” attitude towards him when Jolly arrived at Collingwood, after the pair had engaged in sledging while Jolly was playing for the Swans.

Jolly’s arrival eventually pushed Fraser out of the Collingwood side and he moved to Gold Coast before retiring.

“Unfortunately, he chose to ignore me instead of embracing the situation and barely spoke to me for that entire season,” Jolly wrote in his Fairfax column.

“I'm sure if he'd had a better attitude, we could have had a good ruck combination and he would have continued at the Pies for a bit longer.”

Thomas said that he got on well with Fraser and didn’t remember anything unusual about the pair’s interactions at the time, but said he could understand Fraser not being friendly towards Jolly considering the circumstances.

“If someone is almost drafted or recruited to take your spot, there is probably reason for him to be angry,” Thomas said.

Thomas agreed there were some similarities between the situation and the Mick Malthouse / Nathan Buckley succession saga, before suggesting that teammates should keep such grievances in-house.

“Our boys need to pull their heads in I think. That’s two weeks in a row they have made outlandish statements. (What Jolly said about Fraser’s attitude) is a big statement.

“Maybe the paper isn’t the forum to be raising these issues but anyway he’s done it so if he’s happy to do it in the paper, good on him.

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